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The incomparable Lena Horne,

A member of the 1948 U.S. Olympic team and the first black woman to become the head coach of the U.S. Olympic Women’s Track & Field team.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark legislation that formally ended segregation and dismantled the Jim Crow system by banning discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in various aspects of American life, including employment, education, and public accommodations.

In 2001, Simmons became the first Black woman to lead an Ivy League Institution when she was sworn in as the 18th President of Brown University.

From the Bustill Family

Slowe's legacy is deeply woven into the fabric of African American history. As one of the nine original founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated at Howard University in 1908, she helped lay the foundation for an organization that would empower generations of Black women. Slowe became the first African American to win a major athletic title when she won the American Tennis Association championship in 1917, and she served as the first Dean of Women at Howard University (the first African American to serve in such a position at any university in the US), dedicating her career to supporting young Black women in higher education.

Sculptor

Organized the March on Washington

A talented singer-songwriter and actress, who was a beloved figure in the music industry who is remembered for her for her significant contributions to R&B and jazz. She left a permanent mark with her powerful vocal range, captivating voice, stunning beauty, and undeniable stage presence.

Poet

"To a Dark Girl" Something of old forgotten queens lurks in the lithe abandon of your walk. And something of the shackled slave sobs in the rhythm of your talk.

Poet

On July 9, 1860, the Clotilda, a two-masted 86 foot schooner anchored off Point of Pines in Grand Bay, Mississippi carrying 110 enslaved Africans in spite of the 1807 Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves. It was the last known U.S. slave ship, and among its youngest passengers was two-year-old Matilda McCrear, who would survive until 1940, becoming one of the last living links to the transatlantic slave trade.

Referred to as the First Lady of Negro America, Bethune (1875-1955) was an impassioned Educator and founder of Bethune-Cookman College and the The National Council of Negro Women, Inc.

Founded the Harlem Institute of Fashion in 1966 and established the Black Fashion Museum in Harlem, NY in in 1979.

Starring Nia Long, Cubs Good Jr, Angela Bassett, and Laurence Fishburne

Cleopatra Jones

In 1991, Harlins was murdered, shot in the back of the head from a distance of three feet by a Korean grocery store owner in Los Angeles, California.

On July 24, 1903, Maggie L. Walker became the first Black woman to serve as president of a U.S. bank, as well as the first woman founder of a U.S. bank, when she rallied members of the Independent Order of St. Luke to charter and capitalize the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia.

Investigative journalist who fearlessly investigated and exposed horrific realities of lynchings in the United States in the 1890s.

Journalist and Educator

First African American to earn an Emmy nomination (1969)

Second baseman.

Legendary

Legendary

Oretha and her sister, Doris Jean Castle, were vital leaders of the civil rights movement in New Orleans.

Starring Janet Jackson, Regina King, Tupac Shakur....

Ball (1892 - 1916) was a brilliant chemist who, at 23, discovered the first treatment for Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease), known as the Ball Method.

The first Black woman to earn her wings in the United States Armed Forces (1979).

Amateur Golf Champion